Pietro Lassandro

Médée, héroïne du mythe grec, est devenue Irène, qui vit aujourd'hui parmi nous. Elle est une étrangère qui a abandonné sa terre d'origine, pour épouser un Français, Jason, le père de ses deux enfants. Elle chante chaque soir dans un cabaret pour subvenir aux besoins de sa famille. Un jour pourtant, Jason la quitte pour une autre, une française.

Three young women at home, the eye of the camera doesn't leave them for a moment and shows them first in a narrow kitchen, then in a small bathroom in front of a mirror, then in a bare living room where they spend part of the evening. The three are the mistress of the house and her servants, and the film is based on Les Bonnes by Genet. The servants pretend to unite to varying degrees against their mistress, and she, in turn, pretends to be a mistress who doesn't give explicit orders but who makes herself admired anyway. Each one of them plays the part that is most congenial to her.

This film tells three different love stories, or alleged love stories, or, nevertheless, stories of sentimental relationships set in the Lazio countryside, Rome, and Naples. This is the reiteration - in different days and in different places - of an encounter among three people that (perhaps) may turn out to be fatal.

A film about various forms of migration: those of place, time, body and identity.

A film about various forms of migration: those of place, time, body and identity.

Betty, a famous brasilian 'telenovelas' star, is in search of her twin sister Marlene, who vanished when the kids were four years old (Marlene is now a prostitute). Fragments of other stories, like that of an italian traveller Filippo who left in Italy Giuli, pregnant, and claims to have a split-personality, are inter-twined with the main one